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Ruby's not ready
A controversial evaluation of the programming language Ruby, version 1.8.
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Dynamic languages are static languages
While reviewing some of the comments on my post about parallelism and concurrency, I noticed that the great fallacy about dynamic and static languages continues to hold people in its thrall. So, i…
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"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out"
These are questions that people ask me often. If you have better questions or comments on the answers, feel free to email me. Please remember that I can't spend all of my time improving my homepages.
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Tom Duff on Duff's device (1988)
I normally do not read comp.lang.c, but Jim McKie told me that `` Duff's device '' had come up in comp.lang.c again. I have lost the version that was sent to netnews in May 1984, but I have reproduced below the note in which I originally proposed the device. (If anybody has a copy of the netnews version, I would…
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Lisper's take on Arc
The nerdosphere is abuzz about Arc , Paul Graham's long-awaited new dialect of Lisp, so I figured I might as well pile on. For the benef...
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Idiomatic Clojure
I’m starting to wind down my Clojure research, but I’m feeling a little guilty about having exposed people to my klunky Lisp-newbie code, perhaps giving a false impression of how the language feels. So I’d like to show you what it looks like when it’s created by someone who’s actually part of the tribe and thinks in…
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Someday we will all program in Python
I can write a program in Java about twice as fast as as I can write the same program C or C++, and I can bang out the same program in Python maybe twice again as fast as I can in Java. In Python, you just get straight to the point and say what you mean by saying things like:
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Some highlights of Na’vi
December 19, 2009 @ 12:43 am · Filed by Ben Zimmer under Language and the movies
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Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth
Disclaimers Edit (2009/08/04): It is not obvious for many readers that this blog and its articles are meant as opinion piece. It is also not obvious that I like both languages. Just to be clear, I …
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Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family (2001)
This paper appears in Advances in Exception Handling Techniques , edited by A. Romanovsky, C. Dony, J.L. Knudsen, and A. Tripathi. This book, published in 2001, is part of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2022 , published by Springer .
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Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time
I’ve read a few comments about why Haskell is awesome. I even wrote an ironic blog post about it. Today I’m going to explain why I use Haskell for doing real work, entirely in terms of …
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Introducing Surinx (Ruby syntax w/ Java typing)
In June of this year, I spent a few hours formulating a dynamic cousin to Duby. Duby, if you don't remember, is a static-typed language with Ruby's syntax and Java's type system. Duby supports all Ruby's literals, uses local type inference (only argument types *must* be declared), and runs as fast as Java (because it…
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Clojure 1.0
After a sustained period of API stability and minimal bug reports, I'm happy to announce the release of Clojure 1.0! http://clojure.googleco...
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